Before NASA’s budget was cut, Apollo 17 became the final mission to put man on the moon. Gene Cernan, Jack Schmitt, and Ronald Evans set many records on their 3-day trip to the lunar surface.

Albert Schatz, the scientist who discovered streptomycin, only to have all discovery credit go to Selman Waksman, who would win the Nobel Prize for the discovery — never once giving proper credit to Schatz.

The life and work of Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, whose seminal breakthroughs in science and human physiology have been largely forgotten in modern times.

Thomas Edison was not the first to invent the lightbulb, but he did create a commercially viable incandescent bulb with carbon filament.